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hopefully some suicide bomber makes it to stage and blows tiesto off the planet

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Originally posted by Nostalgic Yeah, as much as I hate the Chinese government I probably shouldn't have said that, but I still have no problem with him not turning down millions of dollars sitting right in front of him.

What if I G Farben offered tiesto a million dollar advertising contract? Would you have no problem then?

I'm not asking people to go around hugging trees and throwing cash for the homeless, but I don't think i could ever be happy with myself from living a lavish life off thousands of people's misery and pain.

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Originally posted by Ste What if I G Farben offered tiesto a million dollar advertising contract? Would you have no problem then?

isn't there some unofficial rule that whenever someone invokes nazism in an internet debate they automatically lose by virtue of their lack of perspective?

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Originally posted by Ste Yeh good for him that he is associating himself with china and it's impeccable human rights record and coca cola with it's equally impressive treatment of it's union reps of it's bottler workers in columbia. I'd love to associate myself with imprisonment, murder and torture to make a quick dollar. He should have stuck to disneyland.

disneyland has been accused of union-busting as well, not to mention child molestation cases that were swept under the rug here in the states.
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the larger point is that unless you're growing organic vegetables in a commune and wearing hand-made hemp clothes, you're contributing to the machine in one way or another -- by the taxes you pay, by the manner in which you live and by the conspicuous consumption in which you partake.

tiesto's sanctioning of "murder and torture" is oblique and indirect, similar to us buying clothes from most major retailers or going to a movie.
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that being said, i agree that his inability to turn down an endorsement deal and willingness to slap his name on anything is tacky and crass; at this point in his life, with ungodly sums in his accounts that can fund him into old age, he should be making more informed choices.

but then again he's just a dj: if we expect our entertainers and celebrities to be on the vanguards of social justice we're in for a lot of disappointment.

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Originally posted by Konijn but then again he's just a dj: if we expect our entertainers and celebrities to be on the vanguards of social justice we're in for a lot of disappointment.

He is just a DJ, i don't expect my entertainers to be celebrities.

Sure, he's on the big stage that makes him a celebrity; but just because some are twats doesn't mean by being a celebrity it allows to be a twat because you have so much money you lose perspective of the real world.

Youtube link

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdplaxNhLE

i got paid real well
HA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

thats all i hear

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